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USS Galilea (AKN-6)
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USS Montauk (LSV-6) (1944 - 1946)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Xray - November NEXN

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Laid down as Net Layer, Montauk (AN-2), 14 April 1942, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 14 April 1943

Reclassified a Transport (AP-161), 2 August 1943

Reclassified an Osage Class Landing Ship Vehicle (LSV-6), 21 April 1944

Placed in partial Commission, 25 May 1944, for ferrying to her completion yard, Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn, N.Y. for completion as a Landing Ship Vehicle

Commissioned in full as USS Montauk (LSV-6), 6 October 1944, CDR. Alfred Reno Boileau in command

During World War II USS Montauk was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 5 April 1945

Following World War II USS Montauk was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
22 to 29 September 1945	1 to 6 October 1945
22 to 25 October 1945	18 to 29 November 1945

Reclassified as a Net Cargo Ship and renamed USS Galilea (AKN-6), 1 October 1946

Decommissioned in July 1947 at Charleston. S.C.

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston Group

Custody assigned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in August 1960

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1961

Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet James River, Lee Hall, VA. in 1962,

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 26 June 1973, to Alberti Equipment Inc.

USS Montauk received one battle star for her World War II service

LSV Specifications:
Displacement 5,625 t.(lt), 9,040 t.(fl)
Length 451' 4"
Beam 60' 3"
Draft 20'
Speed 20.3 kts. (trial)
Complement

Officers 114

Enlisted 450
Troop Accommodations

Officers 122

Enlisted 1236
Boats 19 LVT or 29 DUKW
Armament

two single 5"/38 cal. duel purpose gun mounts

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

twenty single 20mm AA gun mounts
Fuel Capacities

NSFO 12,025 Bbls

Diesel 750 Bbls
Propulsion

two General Electric turbines

four Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers, 400psi 700°

four turbo-drive Ship's Service Generators, 500Kw, 400V A.C.

two propellers, 11,000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Montauk (LSV-6)
	21k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** underway off New York soon after completion of her LSV conversion in October 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 18L US Navy photo	Hyperwar US Navy in World War II web site
	101k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** underway off New York soon after completion of her LSV conversion in October 1944. US Navy photo # NH 104262 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	119k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** underway off New York, 12 October 1944, after completion of her LSV conversion. Configuration changes included mounting a pair of twin 40mm guns in place of her No.2 5"/38 mount, and a single 5"/38 mount aft in place of the original twin. Photo and text from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman.	Robert Hurst
	54k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Amphibious Forces World War II web site
	50k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** underway, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
	79k	*USS Montauk* (LSV-6)** at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Navy Memorial.	Stan Svec
USS Galilea (AKN-6)
	88k	*USS Galilea* (AKN-6)** at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C., 17 February 1947. The yard is preparing the ship for inactivation following cancellation of her conversion to a net cargo ship in December 1946. There is little evidence of the conversion in this photo; most of the alterations were at the stern or inside the ship. US Navy photo # NH 104250 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	161k	*USS Galilea* (AKN-6)*, 26 September 1947, moored in reserve at the US Naval Reserve Fleet berthing area Charleston, S.C., following cancellation of her conversion to a Net Cargo Ship. Note the partially completed reconfiguration of her stern, including the openings in the upper deck and relocation of the after twin 40 mm mounts and directors. The destroyer tender alongside is USS Tidewater* (AD-31)*. US National Archives photo # 80-G-279294 (RG-80-G)*, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Robert Hurst
	53k	Visible to the starboard of *USS Adirondack* (AGC-15) in the James River Reserve Fleet, 27 May 1962 is the stern of USS Galilea (AKN-6) and the bow of USS Libra (AKA-12). The stern of Galilea shows the condition of the ship when her conversion from LSV to AKN was canceled incomplete in December 1946. Libra** and a few other early AKAs can be recognized by the heavy central kingposts added to the goalpost masts forward and aft of the bridge. US Navy photo # NH 66856 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection	Robert Hurst